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SAVE THE DATE: SAI Annual Spring Symposium
The South Asia Initiative provides a platform for budding innovators to showcase their ideas, creations and inventions at the "Health in South Asia: Lessons for and from the World" Symposium.
Click here to visit our website for more details and to register for this event.
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UPCOMING SAI EVENTS:
PAKISTAN SEMINAR SERIES
Monday, March 19, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Thinking with the Heart:
A Language of Justice after the 1971 War of Bangladesh
Speaker: Yasmin Saikia, Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict; Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Room K262, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Co-Sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University
SOUTH ASIA WITHOUT BORDERS SEMINAR SERIES
 Friday, March 23, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Faith, Loyalty, Status:
Mughal-era perspectives on elite Rajput conversions to Islam
Speaker: Ramya Sreenivasan, Associate Professor, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy; Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
Room S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Co-Sponsored by the Department of South Asian Studies
UPCOMING SAI IN-REGION EVENTS:
Chronic Diseases: An Emerging Threat to Health & the Economy
Taj Land's End, Mumbai, India
March 16, 2012
According to the WHO, chronic diseases are the major cause of death and disability worldwide. Global health leadership from India and the U.S. will discuss how the cost of healthcare for the growing numbers of Indians suffering from diabetes, cancer, heart disease and other non-communicable diseases pose a serious threat to India's burgeoning economy.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health, the South Asia Initiative, and the HBS India Research Center.
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 India: The Next Frontier
Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School Conference
March 24-25, 2012
A forum structured to give an unbiased perspective on where India is currently and where it can expect to go over the next new decade taking with it the lives and destinies of a billion people and the attached fortunes of an integrated, increasingly dependent world.
For more information on the conference please click here
South Indian Classical Music Concert
The Harvard University Department of Music presents a South Indian Classical Music Concert featuring Suhas Rao, vocals, Rasika Murali, violin, and Umayalpuram Mali, mridangam.
Sunday, March 25, 2012, at 3:00 PM.
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
This event is free and open to the public. View poster here.
 Parallel Connections: Music and Dance in South Asia
Friday, March 23, 2012
Reception and Exhibition
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm at the CGIS Knafel Concourse, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
Panel Discussion
7:00 pm at the Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
Welcome Remarks: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy; Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
Chair: Laura Weinstein, Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian Art and Islamic Art, Museum of Arts, Boston
Visual Arts: Pragati Sharma, Jyoti Joshi, Don Perrault, and Sunanda Sahay, Music: Warren Senders, Dance: Ranjani Saigal
Co-Sponsored with LearnQuest and the Government of Orissa, India
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CGIS South Bldg, S427, 1720 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA 02138
617-496-4862 sainit@fas.harvard.edu
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